Motivational Quotes

Achievement

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

- Rank, Otto

Best Quotes about Achievement

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

Jung, Carl

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Kuralt, Charles

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Hill, Napoleon

For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

Winthrop, John

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Reading, Lady Stella

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Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

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It's not the having, it's the getting.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Tracy, Brian

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Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Where there is a will there is a way. is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Smiles, Samuel

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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Phaedrus

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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Desai, Morarji

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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Robinson, Eddie

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Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.

Woodruff, Julia

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The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

21.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Johnson, Samuel

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Aristotle

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,

Weil, Simone

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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of

Hoffer, Eric

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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Jowett, Benjamin

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It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

Ziglar, Zig

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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Ovid

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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

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There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

Robbins, Anthony

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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.

41.

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

42.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Welles, Orson

43.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Thoreau, Henry David

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

Weaver, Dennis

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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.